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Brazilian Coconut Kisses (Beijinhos de Coco)

These Brazilian Coconut Kisses are coconut fudge balls made from only 4 ingredients in less than 30 minutes They are a must-have for parties and also for garnishing cakes!!! I served them as "snow balls" at a FROZEN theme party.

Course
Dessert

Cuisine
Brazilian

Keyword
Beijinhos de coco, coconut kisses

Prep Time22minutes

Cook Time7minutes

Total Time29minutes

Servings28

Calories64kcal

AuthorDenise Browning -- Easy and Delish

Ingredients

1cansweetened condensed milk14-ounce or 396 g

1cupsweetened coconut flakesplus more for dredging

1tablespoonunsalted buttersoftened (plus more for greasing a plate and your hands)

1tablespoonpure vanilla extractoptional

Cloves for garnishingoptional

Instructions

Mix the condensed milk, coconut flakes, and butter together.

Cook in a medium non-stick saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture starts to show the bottom of the pan when you scrape it with your wood spoon (about 7 minutes).

When coconut kisses 'dough' is ready, remove from the heat, mix in the vanilla extract, and spread mixture onto a greased plate.

Let cool to room temperature before starting to roll them into balls with greased hands. Use a 1/2 Tablespoon as measurement. Then, dredge gently in the coconut flakes until totally covered.

Place into paper bonbon cups. Stick a clove atop (center) of each coconut kiss if desired. NOTE: The clove is only for decoration and must be removed right before eating!!!

Recipe Notes

Store coconut kisses into a clean airtight container for up to 2 days at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

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These delicate kisses look and sound a lot like Bangladeshi coconut laddu/naru that I absolutely love. Seriously, what is not to love about creamy smooth condensed milk and coconut. Scrumptious, my friend, totally scrumptious.

We use also a pitted, opened prune under some of these and call them Mother-in-law eyes. Hehe!
Coconut kisses are only made from coconut. If you mix other flavors with it, you gotta call them something else. 🙂

Chocolate ones are called Brigadeiros! They’re also Brazilian made with more or less the same ingredients, but add some cocoa powder. I’m pretty sure it’d turn it out even more Chocolate-y if you use choco condensed milk! Yummmm

sweet memories! I am going to make these for our department soon, it’s kind of sad that one of our grad students hates coconut, so she won’t touch these. It is interesting because she is from India, and hates coconut – can you imagine that???? 😉

I cannot imagine an Indian hates coconut. Like us, they have many dishes made from it. But well, what to say?
I hope everyone enjoy these. I ate almost them all by myself. I also butterflied and placed a prune under some of them to have them like olho de sogra, remember?

Fantastic idea and also very easy to make, like the Brigadeiros. Mirella plans to offer your Brigadeiros at work on her birthday later on September. They’re the perfect treat:)
Have a wonderful week Denise!

Panos:
My birthday is also in September — on the 6th! How about Mirella’s? I hope her co-workers and she enjoy brigadeiros which is the most popular bonbon in Brazil. Wishing you both a wonderful week! Thanks so much for stopping by.

I am looking for a recipe that is VERY similar to this recipe but it has a crunchy candy shell (yellowish color)on the outside of the coconut ball. Do you have a recipe for that?

A co-worker’s mother lives in Brazil and makes them and ships them to my co-worker who shares them with me but I’d love to have the recipe to try to make them. The co-worker’s mother prefers not to share the recipe so I’m trying to find it elsewhere.

Hi, Denise! Yes, I have the recipe that you are talking about. It is called Bala Bahiana or Glass Bonbons. It has a beijinho de coco or coconut kisses inside and a hard shell outside. Here is its recipe link: https://www.easyanddelish.com/glass-bonbons/
Enjoy and have a very Merry Christmas!

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Hi, I am Denise Browning!

Welcome to Easy and Delish! I am a professional Chef with expertise in Brazilian Food! We cook easy and healthy meals with simple ingredients, especially dinner recipes and desserts. The result? Super delish dishes!!! Enjoy!